Dear Leighton Families,

It is so hard to believe we are approaching the month of November. Our days of learning and growing are going so quickly! We are looking forward to welcoming all our parents to Fall Conferences next week and the following week, and also our Fall Festivals on Monday, October 31st. Please see below for some important reminders about these upcoming events.

Our bus evacuation drills went great this week and students did an exemplary job practice using the emergency exits on the bus. As shared in an earlier communication with families, our students did an exemplary job during our district wide evacuation drill as well. Thank you for your support and partnership in ensuring the safety of our students.

As we enter the month of November, the word 'grateful' and 'thanks' comes to mind. We are so grateful to continue to 'nurture the roots' of our learners and help them to blossom. We also give much 'thanks' for the support of our parents. Thank you for all you do to partner with us each day and continue to provide an exemplary education to our learners.

Kind Regards,

Michelle Nizen, Building Principal

Ben Lehman, Assistant Principal

Students are hard at work earning poms and filling up their classroom jars! When these jars are filled, student bring their classroom jars to the office and empty them into the Building Wide Pom Pom Pail!!

We have almost filled up our second Pom Pom Pail and will be getting ready to celebrate our next building wide reward.

"Platinum platter" award winners abound as our classes are doing a great job demonstrating our 3 pillars during lunch and recess. Classes are always working to earn "positive compliments" during lunch and recess. Every two weeks, classes who earn the most "positive compliments" earn the right to display the "platinum platter" outside their classroom door for all to see and enjoy popsicles at lunch or an extra recess with Mrs. Nizen and Mr. Lehman.

Pom Pom Shout Out occur every Friday where we acknowledge students over announcements who have earned a special shout out for outstanding efforts in demonstrating our 3 pillars in their academic or behavioral pursuits. Students will receive a pom pom shout out reward and those names are entered into a monthly drawing to pick out of our PBIS store at the end of the month.

Leighton Pride is Building Wide!

Party times are below:

Grade 3: 10:00-11:00 (PTO helpers setting up from 10:00-10:15)

Grade 4 and 5: 2:15-3:15 (PTO helpers setting up from 2:15-2:30)

Guidelines for our Fall Festivals are the following:

Students can wear their costumes to school all day long. Please be sure costumes are functional and school safe. We ask that there are no weapons, blood, guts, or face coverings to accompany the costumes. Students will be sharing their costumes within their homerooms and hallways but there will not be a formal parade.

Each classroom has three volunteers to help support the celebrations' activities. All visitors will be checked in. Thank you to our PTO head parents for organizing all of this.

The PTO will be supplying oreos as a take home snack this year and the nutritional information and ingredients facts can be found below.

Thank you to our PTO parents who work so hard each year to plan lots of fun games and activities. We are so grateful for your time, effort, and hardwork in making each year so much fun!

We are looking forward to the upcoming Parent Teacher Conferences and collaborating with you on your child's educational journey thus far!

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on the following Dates:

November 2nd- (5:30-8:30pm)

November 10th (5:30-8:30pm)

We are excited to be welcoming parents back into the building for in person conferences. Your child's teacher will be reaching out, or has already reached out, to have you sign up for a day and time that works best for you. While we are looking forward to opening the building back up for in persons conferences to discuss your child's progress, your child's teacher will also work with you to make alternative arrangements via virtual or phone conferencing to accommodate any needs. We are looking forward to seeing each of our families in a few short weeks!

Here is your AEPTO update...

1. The last day to sign up for the PTO is 10/31

2. Fall Fest is Monday 10/31. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers!

3. LES conferences are 11/2 and 11/10. AEPTO will be providing the staff dinner from Mazzulo's on 11/10

4. Next PTO meeting is 11/9 at 6:30 p.m. at the C&I building. (119 W. Pioneer Trail)

5. THANK YOU to Lee Angelo's and to everyone who participated in our AEPTO giveback night!

6. January 28th Family Night at the Cleveland Monsters Game. Please see attached flyer for more details!

7. Kalahari Family Getaway February 16th. Please see attached flyer for more details!

8. Disney On Ice January 6th through 15th. Use Code NEOPTA22 for discounted tickets

https://www.rocketmortgagefieldhouse.com/group/detail/fieldhouseplus

UPCOMING EVENTS

10/27: LES- Band Concert 7:00PM @ AHS

NHS Trunk or Treat

10/31: Fall Fest Class Parties

11/2: LES- Teacher Conferences 5:30PM-8:30PM

11/7-11/10: MES- Scholastic Book Fair

11/8: CES- Teacher Conferences

11/9: PTO Meeting 6:30PM @ C&I Building

11/10: CES- Teacher Conferences

LES- Teacher Conferences 5:30PM-8:30PM

11/14 MES-Picture Retakes

11/17: LES- Picture Retakes (Use Code re3599leigh)

Please remember that when you take your child out of school for a doctor or dentist appointment, the State of Ohio requires that a doctor's note be brought back to the school for attendance purposes. You can give the note to the secretaries in the main office.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Tanski in the clinic at 330-954-2285 or email her at atanski@aurora-schools.org

As a reminder, please monitor your child for any COVID-related symptoms and contact our school nurse if you have any questions. We appreciate your attention to this.

• Check your child each day for COVID-related symptoms. If your child is showing any symptoms whatsoever, it is best to keep him/her home to monitor.
• Students sent home with a fever, may not return to school until they are fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours. This means if your child was sent home on Tuesday at 12:00 p.m. with a fever, he/she may not return to school until Thursday. If your child does return the next day, our school nurse will be calling for you to come to pick him/her up. Thank you for your support and efforts in this area.
  
• We have COVID-19 home testing kits available that we can send home with any child or family should you question symptoms or exposure. We will be able to answer any questions about these kits should the need arise.
• Please make sure your Final Forms medical information is up to date. We will closely read the health sections to address any medical concerns.

**** If your child will be absent for an extended period, please reach out to your child's teacher and they will get school work ready for your student for the period of the absence. You may pick up the work outside the main office on a table that will be labeled with your student's name.